Yury Andropov briefs Politburo on forthcoming trial of Anatoly SHCHARANSKY, arrested in mid-March the previous year. (MHG 30th anniversary) total 2 pp. =================== V-118 Top secret The only copyWorking paper SESSION OF THE POLITBURO OF THE CC CPSUJune 22, 1978 Chaired by Comrade Brezhnev, L.I. In attendance: Comrades Andropov, U.V.; Grishin, V.V.; Gromyko, A.A.; Kulakov, … Continue reading Shcharansky’s upcoming trial (22 June 1978*, Pb)
LANGUAGE EDITIONS in alphabetical order (* earliest editions, 1995-1996) * ENGLISH (2016; 2019) Judgment in Moscow, 9th November Press: Los Angeles, 2019 (unabridged, translated by Alyona Kozhevnikov). Judgement in Moscow, 2016 (abridged, translated & edited by John R. Crowfoot). * FRENCH (1995) Jugement à Moscou: Un dissident dans les archives du Kremlin, Robert Laffont: Paris, … Continue reading “Judgement” in print (1995-2019)
SECRETARIAT. Proposal for Soviet press release concerning BUKOVSKY's meeting with US President JIMMY CARTER [R: 1 March 1977, St 46-15]. 7 pp. ===================== [page one of seven] No. St 46/15 of 1 March 1977 Top Secret RESOLUTION Central Committee Secretariatof the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Draft of a press report about J. Carter’s … Continue reading Bukovsky-Carter press release (1 March 1977*, St 46/15)
KGB MEMORANDUM. Measures to stop the proliferation of anti-Soviet activities by the "Helsinki Watch Committee in USSR", and its sub-committees set up in Ukraine and Lithuania [R: 5 January 1977, 22-A]. 2 pp. ============================================= Top Secret To CPSU Central Committee About measures to end the hostile activity Of members of the so-called “Group For Assistance … Continue reading Stopping Helsinki Groups (5 Jan 1977*, 22-A)
KGB REPORT. About the anti-Soviet goals of the "so-called" Helsinki Groups in the USSR, and measures to counter their activities [R: 15 November 1976, 2577-A]. 3 pp. ====================== [page one of three] Secret USSR COMMITTEE For State Security at the USSR Council of Ministers 15 November 1976, No. 2577-A Moscow To CPSU Central Committee About … Continue reading Goals of Helsinki Groups (15 Nov 1976*, 2577-A)
Selected by a prominent Soviet-era dissident and veteran opponent of the regime, this archive is a unique source of information on the post-Stalin years of the USSR. In 1992, Vladimir Bukovsky was given access to the archives of the CPSU Central Committee in Moscow for a period of five months. The new Russian government of … Continue reading 02. The Status of these Archives
On Sunday, 18 March 2018, Vladimir PUTIN ran for the Russian presidency for a fourth time and won easily in the first round, claiming 77% of votes cast (by 68% of the electorate), in a contest that was neither free nor fair. His most prominent opponent, following the murder of Boris Nemtsov, was Alexei NAVALNY, … Continue reading Only a Trial will do This Time (2013)
«The New York Times» (22 March 1987) Are Mikhail S. Gorbachov's new policies the historical turning point we have been praying for, signaling the end of oppression and misery in the Soviet Union? Or are we witnessing only a short-lived ''thaw,'' a tactical retreat before the next offensive, as Lenin put it in 1921? True, … Continue reading [iv] Is Glasnost a Game of Mirrors? (1987)
"Peace will be preserved and strengthened if the people / take the cause of peace into their own hands and defend it to the end" Joseph Stalin, 1952 * The “struggle for peace” has always been a cornerstone of Soviet foreign policy. Indeed, the Soviet Union itself rose out of the ashes of World War … Continue reading (II) “The Peace Movement and the USSR” (1982)
The Bukovsky Archives 